Angry popular protests spread throughout the windy 2019, the streets of countries across the globe, from the Middle East and North Africa, through Asia and Europe to South America.
Popular movements, the reasons for which varied between anti-corruption and high costs and demanding more freedoms and allegations of electoral fraud, but they intersect at the line of contact with popular anger that rages in a year preparing to fade.
Protests punctuated by clashes with the security forces, which resulted in the death toll, injuries and arrests in 16 countries and autonomous regions around the world, surrounded by popular anger.
** Middle East and North Africa
In February, the candidacy of former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika for a fifth term sparked protests throughout the country.
And demanded about 3 million people who took to the streets, to exclude all symbols of the Bouteflika regime from running the country, forcing the latter to resign on the second of April, after a ruling that lasted 20 years.
A presidential election in Algeria on December 12th resulted in the election of Abdel Majid Taboun, as the new president of the country.
And in North Africa always, specifically in Egypt, more than 4 thousand people, including 11 journalists, were arrested after protests that erupted in September, in refusal to enrich high-ranking officials in the country by exploiting public funds.
Sudan, whose protests started in late 2018, to protest against the rise in the price of bread, has continued its movement for months in 2019, in demonstrations that moved from the capital Khartoum to other cities, leaving more than 40 people dead until 10 January 2019, according to Amnesty International, and injured hundreds.
On April 11 this year, the army announced the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir, thereby putting an end to his three-decade rule.
In Iran in the Middle East, popular protests erupted last November, refusing to raise the government's fuel price by 50 percent.
The protests killed more than 140 people in 22 different cities, and arrested more than a thousand others across the country.
The neighboring Iraq, in turn, is witnessing popular protests that started since last October, denouncing corruption and the deterioration of economic conditions before the ceiling of its demands to drop the entire political class.
Protests concentrated in the capital, Baghdad, and the southern governorates, leaving behind 497 people dead and more than 17,000 wounded, according to local human, medical and security sources.
In Lebanon, protests erupted after the government imposed taxes on communications, including the application of "WhatsApp", in a move that forced Prime Minister Saad Hariri to announce his resignation, entering the country into a new stage that led to binding parliamentary consultations and the naming of Hassan Diab to form a new government.
** Asia
The Autonomous Region of Hong Kong in China, in turn, witnessed protests after the attempt by Chief Carrie Lam's government to pass a controversial bill, authorizing the extradition of wanted persons to Beijing, a project that was formally withdrawn last October.
The aforementioned law raised fears among democracy advocates, as it threatens freedoms if passed, prompting them to launch millions of protests last June.
Peaceful protests, which subsequently turned violent, despite the withdrawal of the aforementioned law, resulted in the death of 13 and the injury of thousands more.
In Indonesia, students in major cities, notably the capital, Jakarta, went out in protests calling for the repeal of amendments to the Anti-Corruption Law and the Criminal Code, which killed 5 people.
In India, legal amendments granting Indian citizenship to irregular immigrants holding the nationalities of Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, ignited, provided they are not Muslims and face persecution because of their religion in their predominantly Muslim countries, fuse protests that started in December this year.
On the bridge linking Asia and Europe, the streets of the Russian capital, Moscow, witnessed last summer, protests against the backdrop of the government's refusal to allow opposition activists and independent candidates to submit their candidatures for the capital's municipal elections.
The protests resulted in the arrest of more than 1,500 people, some of whom were sentenced to prison.
Europe
The Czech capital, Prague, witnessed the departure of more than 200,000 people, last November, in protests calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Andre Papes and Minister of Justice Maria Banusova, following reports about their involvement in corruption.
On the northern bank of the Mediterranean Sea, France witnessed its turn, this year, during the protests of the "yellow jackets" that erupted in November 2018, rejecting the policies of the country's President Emmanuel Macron, thus achieving the title of the longest protests in the country's history.
The "yellow jackets" protests that broke out initially, in refusal to increase fuel prices and poor economic conditions, have killed 11 people and injured more than 4,000 others so far.
The French authorities have arrested more than 12 thousand people, and 3 thousand and 163 of them have been tried.
In Spain, protesters who supported the secession of the Catalonia region gathered in the streets last October after the Supreme Court decided to imprison 9 Catalan politicians who support the secession of the province from the central government in Madrid.
** South america
Bolivia witnessed the outbreak of popular protests in the city of "La Paz", after elections last October, accusing the country's President Evo Morales of committing violations and rigging the elections.
Bolivia's protests resulted in Morales resigning in November, taking refuge in Mexico, and at least 31 people killed across the country.
As for the Chile protests, a refusal to increase public transportation fares in the capital, Santiago, broke out in a short period.
The protests calling for equal income and raising the level of income to secure citizens' access to high-quality health and education services left 22 people dead and more than 2,000 arrested.
In Colombia, the protests that broke out last November resulted in a lack of a national economic plan in the country, widespread corruption, and human rights violations.
Popular movements, the reasons for which varied between anti-corruption and high costs and demanding more freedoms and allegations of electoral fraud, but they intersect at the line of contact with popular anger that rages in a year preparing to fade.
Protests punctuated by clashes with the security forces, which resulted in the death toll, injuries and arrests in 16 countries and autonomous regions around the world, surrounded by popular anger.
** Middle East and North Africa
In February, the candidacy of former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika for a fifth term sparked protests throughout the country.
And demanded about 3 million people who took to the streets, to exclude all symbols of the Bouteflika regime from running the country, forcing the latter to resign on the second of April, after a ruling that lasted 20 years.
A presidential election in Algeria on December 12th resulted in the election of Abdel Majid Taboun, as the new president of the country.
And in North Africa always, specifically in Egypt, more than 4 thousand people, including 11 journalists, were arrested after protests that erupted in September, in refusal to enrich high-ranking officials in the country by exploiting public funds.
Sudan, whose protests started in late 2018, to protest against the rise in the price of bread, has continued its movement for months in 2019, in demonstrations that moved from the capital Khartoum to other cities, leaving more than 40 people dead until 10 January 2019, according to Amnesty International, and injured hundreds.
On April 11 this year, the army announced the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir, thereby putting an end to his three-decade rule.
In Iran in the Middle East, popular protests erupted last November, refusing to raise the government's fuel price by 50 percent.
The protests killed more than 140 people in 22 different cities, and arrested more than a thousand others across the country.
The neighboring Iraq, in turn, is witnessing popular protests that started since last October, denouncing corruption and the deterioration of economic conditions before the ceiling of its demands to drop the entire political class.
Protests concentrated in the capital, Baghdad, and the southern governorates, leaving behind 497 people dead and more than 17,000 wounded, according to local human, medical and security sources.
In Lebanon, protests erupted after the government imposed taxes on communications, including the application of "WhatsApp", in a move that forced Prime Minister Saad Hariri to announce his resignation, entering the country into a new stage that led to binding parliamentary consultations and the naming of Hassan Diab to form a new government.
** Asia
The Autonomous Region of Hong Kong in China, in turn, witnessed protests after the attempt by Chief Carrie Lam's government to pass a controversial bill, authorizing the extradition of wanted persons to Beijing, a project that was formally withdrawn last October.
The aforementioned law raised fears among democracy advocates, as it threatens freedoms if passed, prompting them to launch millions of protests last June.
Peaceful protests, which subsequently turned violent, despite the withdrawal of the aforementioned law, resulted in the death of 13 and the injury of thousands more.
In Indonesia, students in major cities, notably the capital, Jakarta, went out in protests calling for the repeal of amendments to the Anti-Corruption Law and the Criminal Code, which killed 5 people.
In India, legal amendments granting Indian citizenship to irregular immigrants holding the nationalities of Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, ignited, provided they are not Muslims and face persecution because of their religion in their predominantly Muslim countries, fuse protests that started in December this year.
On the bridge linking Asia and Europe, the streets of the Russian capital, Moscow, witnessed last summer, protests against the backdrop of the government's refusal to allow opposition activists and independent candidates to submit their candidatures for the capital's municipal elections.
The protests resulted in the arrest of more than 1,500 people, some of whom were sentenced to prison.
Europe
The Czech capital, Prague, witnessed the departure of more than 200,000 people, last November, in protests calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Andre Papes and Minister of Justice Maria Banusova, following reports about their involvement in corruption.
On the northern bank of the Mediterranean Sea, France witnessed its turn, this year, during the protests of the "yellow jackets" that erupted in November 2018, rejecting the policies of the country's President Emmanuel Macron, thus achieving the title of the longest protests in the country's history.
The "yellow jackets" protests that broke out initially, in refusal to increase fuel prices and poor economic conditions, have killed 11 people and injured more than 4,000 others so far.
The French authorities have arrested more than 12 thousand people, and 3 thousand and 163 of them have been tried.
In Spain, protesters who supported the secession of the Catalonia region gathered in the streets last October after the Supreme Court decided to imprison 9 Catalan politicians who support the secession of the province from the central government in Madrid.
** South america
Bolivia witnessed the outbreak of popular protests in the city of "La Paz", after elections last October, accusing the country's President Evo Morales of committing violations and rigging the elections.
Bolivia's protests resulted in Morales resigning in November, taking refuge in Mexico, and at least 31 people killed across the country.
As for the Chile protests, a refusal to increase public transportation fares in the capital, Santiago, broke out in a short period.
The protests calling for equal income and raising the level of income to secure citizens' access to high-quality health and education services left 22 people dead and more than 2,000 arrested.
In Colombia, the protests that broke out last November resulted in a lack of a national economic plan in the country, widespread corruption, and human rights violations.